Metal-lined package for beer, ale, wine, and other liquids.



W. A. HALL. METAL LINED PACKAGE FOR BEER, ALE, WINE, AND OTHER LIQUIDS.

APPLICATION FILED MAILZE, 1912. 1,086, 1 69, Patented Feb. 3, 1914.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM A. HALL, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE CINCINNATI COOPERAGE COMPANY, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

METAL-LINED PACKAGE FOR BEER, ALE, WINE, AND OTHER LIQUIDS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 3, 1914.

Application filed March 25, 1912. Serial No. 686,054.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. HALL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Metal-Lined Packages for Beer, Ale, Wine, and other Liquids, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification. 1

My invention has especial relation to aluminum lined packages for liquids of 1 various kinds, but as will be pointed out, certain features of the invention may be equally applicable to all barrels, kegs and the like, whether lined or not.

The use of aluminum as a material for lining casks, kegs and barrels has been heretofore suggested, but in the use of such linings great difliculty has been experienced in providing metallic bushes for the openings in the package. When the aluminum lining and the metal bush contact in the presence of the liquid, a galvanic action is set up which causes corrosion, destroying the connections and contaminating the liquid.

One object of my invention is to provide a construction in which there shall be no contact between the iron and aluminum in the presence of the liquid.

Another object is to provide a construction in which the staves or head shall not be weakened by the insertion of the bushing and in which, when the union between the bush and the seat in the stave is damaged by repeated use, a new seat can be provided, without the removal of the old, and the substitution of a new stave.

A third object is to' provide a construction which will readily and easily permit of the insertion of any of the standard styles of bushes, taps, or faucets, so that it is not necessary to provide a special construction to fill any special requirement on the part of the purchaser. This last mentioned feature of my invention is. one of great advantage and importance in connection with the use of a metal lined package.

Heretofore it has been necessary to construct the barrel, keg or cask with a selected style of bushing, and should the purchaser desire any other kind of a bushing, par- .and 3 with the staves omitted.

.central portion or bilge of the staves, but

ticularly adapted to the construction of faucet or tap in useby him, it has been necessary, in order to supply the particular demand, to make up special packages equipped with the special design of bushing required for the special purchaser.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevat on of my improved package, partly in vertical section. Fig. 2 is a detail, central section taken through the bushing seat before the bushing is inserted. "Fig.- 3 is a similar section, with an ordinary bushing in place. Flgs. 4 and 5 are plan views of the sleeve and ring respectively illustrated in Figs. 2

The aluminum lining 1 is formed in any suitable way, of the size and shape ofthe barrel to be lined, to fit snugly between the heads of the barrel and to bear upon the free from the staves at the ends. The linm g is preferably made in two pieces, with an annular seam suitably soldered or riveted to form a water tight receptacle. The method of forming the lining receptacle, 0 however, forms no part of my present invention.

The inclosing barrel, keg or cask is made up of staves 2, with heads 3, in the usual way, and the staves secured with the usual 5 number of hoops 4, 4. The staves bear upon the aluminum lining at the middle portion at 6, and the heads of the lining come into close contact with the heads 3 of the barrel, leaving a space 7 between the bilge and the heads to permit the hoops to be driven with the shrinkage of the wood, without marring or otherwise injuring the metal casing. This space may be filled if desired with any suitable packing, and I have found oakum very desirable as such packing. The essen:. tial thing is to properly secure the aluminum lining to the barrel openings where the bushings for the bangs and faucet plugs are to be located.

With my improved construction I cut a circular opening midway between two of the staves. Into this opening from the inside is fitted an interiorly threaded sleeve 8, provided with an interiorly extending flange 9 9, the inner surface of which is formed with one or more ribs 10, 10. The outer side of the sleeve 8 is also provided with a series of upwardly extending cone-shaped lugs 11,

11, of any desired number, preferably four 10 as shown. These lugs 11 are intended to engage the inner surface of the staves around the opening to lock the sleeve in place. The aluminum lining is bent around the flange 9 and pressed down over the ribs 10, thus forming a smooth connection with the flange of the sleeve. Cooperating with this sleeve 8 is an exteriorly threaded metallic ring band 12, provided with a flanged top 13, with the flange extending inwardly and outwardly, and provided on its under surface with a series of ribs 14, 14. Fitted in this ring band 12 is a disk 15, of wood, or other suitable non-conducting material, the disk being of the thickness of the staves. Having secured the sleeve'8 in place and fitted down the aluminum lining around the opening as described, the ring band 12 is then screwed into the sleeve, notches 17, 17, being provided for a suitable wrench. The screwing down of the band 12 forces the ribs of the flange into the wood and forces the under surface of the disk 15 to its seat on the flange 9 of the sleeve 8, thus locking securely the aluminum lining around the opening, with the lining where exposed to the liquid in the receptacle only in contact with the wooden disk 15. In this way, a wooden disk 15 is securely inserted and held in the opening formed between the two staves, the sleeve 8 and band 12 forming a metallic support for the disk 15,and the staves are held tightly in place by the interlocking sleeves. The barrels, casks or kegs are now ready for the forming of the bush openings for any of the standard styles of bushes, taps or :Eaucets.

As illustrated in Fig. 3, I have shown the ordinary metal bushing for an ordinary bung or faucet plug. The disk 15 is employed as the seatfor this bushing 16, and a suitable opening is cut in the disk and the bushing screwed in the opening in the usual way. If the purchaser of the barrels, kegs or casks desires some other construction of bushing for his barrels, of course any such bushes can be readily inserted in place in the disk 15. As already intimated, the hammering on the bushes when the barrels are in use, in a comparatively short time may damage the screwthreaded union between the bush and its seat. In that event, to'supply a new seat for the bush, the ring band 12 is merely removed and a new disk in-' serted, so that it is not necessary to renew the staves; and, moreover, even although the opening out between the two staves may be more than twice the diameter of the ordinary bush opening when out in a single stave, the uncut wood of each stave when the two staves have the opening between them will be greater than the wood remaining uncut in the ordinary bung stave, so

that the life of the staves in my construction is greatly prolonged.

While I have only illustrated the construction employed for the central bung opening in the barrel, it will he understood that the same construction is provided for the vent or faucet openings in the heads, or wherever else desired. It will also be understood that while I have illustrated and described the seat for the bung bushing as a disk, it is not essential that the seat should be circular, as any polygonal block of Wood with suitable metal support could be employed, although, obviously, the disk form ters Patent, is

1. In a wooden metal lined barrel, provided with an opening therein and a bushing therefor, a wooden seat for the bushing inserted in the barrel wall, with a peripheral metallic support for the seat to lock the seat in place to provide a liquid tight fit with means on said support to engage the barrel, outside of said lining.

2. In a wooden metal lined barrel, provided with an opening therein and a bushing therefor, a wooden seat for the bushin inserted in the barrel'wall, with a perip eral metallic support -for the seat comprising interlocking ,thimbles to secure the seat in place to provide a liquid ti ht fit with meanson said support to engage t e barrel, outside of said lining.

3. In a wooden metal lined barrel, provided with an opening therein and a bushing therefor, a wooden disk in which the bushing is seated, with a peripheral metallic support for the seat comprising flan ed interlockin sleeves for securing the isk in place in t e barrel, to provide a liquid tight fit with means on said support to engage the barrel, outside of said linin 4. In a wooden metal line barrel, provided with an opening therein and a bushing therefor, a wooden disk in which the bushing is seated, with a peripheral metallic support for the seat comprising an extra-- riorly and an interiorly threade sleeve in the barrel wall, each with an inwardly projecting flange between which the disk is engaged as the sleeves are drawn together to lock the disk in place, with the metal lining around the bush opening engaged between the disk and the interior sleeve flange.

5. In a wooden metal lined barrel, provided with an opening therein and a bush ing therefor, a wooden seat for the bushing inserted in the barrel wall midway between two staves, with a peripheral metallic support for the seat comprising interlocking. thimbles to secure the seat in place to provide a liquid tight fit, and each thimble provided with means to hold the staves from spreading.

6. In a wooden metal lined barrel, provided with an opening therein and a bushing therefor, a wooden disk in which the bushing is seated, with an exteriorly and an interiorly threaded sleeve in the barrel wall, each with an inwardly projeotin flange between which the disk is engaged as the sleeves are drawn together to lock the disk in place, with the metal lining around the bush opening engaged between the disk and the interior sleeve flange, said flange being provided with ribs to lock the lining in place.

7. In a wooden barrel formed of staves and heads, with hoops to lock the staves and heads together an aluminum lining for the barrel, contactln with the heads, and bilge of the barrel, wlth free space between the lining and staves at the ends to provide three pointsof support for the inner casing, with an opening, a metal bushing therefor, and means for locking the aluminum lining at the opening with nonconducting material inserted between the lining and the metal bushings.

WILLIAM A. HALL.

Attest:

MARTIN ALLEN,

AwwA F. Dnms'r. 

